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Gentoo: GLSA-202305-15 Critical: Denial of Service in Python XML Handling

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo: GLSA-202103-15 addresses vulnerabilities in Boost impacting user security and offers guidance for mitigation measures.
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Boost, each one possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200802-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Boost: Denial of Service Date: February 14, 2008 Bugs: #205955 ID: 200802-08

Synopsis ======= Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Boost, each one possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Boost is a set of C++ libraries, including the Boost.Regex library to process regular expressions.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/boost < 1.34.1-r2 >= 1.34.1-r2
========== Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry from the Google Security Team reported a failed assertion in file regex/v4/perl_matcher_non_recursive.hpp (CVE-2008-0171) an...

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